Crosby2010
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Right handed team vs. Left
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I wonder were an even higher percentage of Russian players around this time growing up shooting left? That seems crazy to me their wouldn’t be a single righty.
Crosby2010
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Good question, you might be right. Petrov right off the top of my head was a well known right handed shot on the 1972 Summit Series team. But you'd be surprised that there were only 4 in total. On Team Canada in comparison there were more, including Tony Esposito in net. 9 in total. Some prominent ones too. Henderson, Gilbert, Ellis, White. Then guys who didn't play much, Mikita, Cashman, Goldsworthy, Redmond. But still more than the Soviets. It is funny because Babcock was so headstrong on having an even amount of right handed and left handed shots on defense on the 2014 and 2016 teams, which isn't overly wrong or anything but it is such a big contrast to the 1984 Soviet Canada Cup team.
MadLuke
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Apparently a Russian junior team at the world recently was 100% lefty except for one goaltender....
With american player being more dominant hands near the blade than Canadian's apparently and Canadian's more than Russian, maybe there something cultural about it, if almost everybody do it one way, you will tend to mimic it (and store will have way more lefty blade than rights, you big brother stick pass down you use will be left and so on)
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Isn’t it kind of obvious? The vast majority of people are right handed, and the vast majority of people who play hockey use the dominant hand at the top of the stick which means they shoot left. Apparently due to the significance of baseball in North America some people use the dominant hand at the bottom of the stick hence why there are significantly more people shooting right than there are left-handed people in the general population.
